New in Paperback : June 2018
Greg Egan’s Dichronauts, Joe Hill’s Strange Weather, Fonda Lee’s Jade City, Charles Stross’ The Delirium Brief, and titles by Katherine Arden, Ruthanna Emrys, James Islington, Jay Kristoff, David D. Levine, Victor Milán, Rob Reid, Anthony Ryan, and S.M. Stirling.
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Arden, Katherine : The Girl in the Tower
(Del Rey 978-1101885987, $16, 400pp, trade paperback, June 2018)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 26 Jun 2018
• Winternight #2
(First edition: Del Rey, December 2017)
Fantasy novel, second in a trilogy following The Bear and the Nightingale (Jan. 2017), about a Russian girl whose ability to see her childhood spirits drives her from her home.
• Penguin Random House’s site has this description with an excerpt.
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Egan, Greg : Dichronauts
(Night Shade Books 978-1597809405, $15.99, 312pp, trade paperback, June 2018)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 12 Jun 2018
(First edition: Night Shade Books, July 2017)
Hard SF novel set in a universe in which there are two dimensions of time and two dimensions of space.
• Night Shade’s site has this description with quotes from reviews.
• Amazon’s “Look Inside” function provides previews.
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Emrys, Ruthanna : Winter Tide
(Tor.com 978-0765398086, $15.99, 368pp, trade paperback, June 2018)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 12 Jun 2018
• The Innsmouth Legacy #1
(First edition: Tor, April 2017)
Fantasy novel, the author’s first novel and first in a series, about refugees from Innsmouth rounded up by the government in 1928 and taken to desert camps.
• Macmillan’s site has this description with an excerpt.
• The second book, Deep Roots, is out July 10th.
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Hill, Joe : Strange Weather
(Morrow 978-0062663122, $16.99, 448pp, trade paperback, June 2018)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 26 Jun 2018
(First edition: Morrow, October 2017)
Collection of four short novels one of which, “Snapshot,” appeared earlier, in different form, in Cemetery Dance.
• HarperCollins’ site has this description with a sample.
• The book recently won a Bram Stoker Award.
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Islington, James : An Echo of Things to Come
(Orbit 978-0316274135, $16.99, 784pp, trade paperback, June 2018)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 12 Jun 2018
• Licanius Trilogy #2
(First edition: Orbit, August 2017)
Epic fantasy novel, second in a trilogy following The Shadow of What Was Lost (2016).
• Hachette’s site has this description with an excerpt.
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Kristoff, Jay : Godsgrave
(St. Martin’s 978-1250170149, $17.99, 464pp, trade paperback, June 2018)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 19 Jun 2018
• Nevernight #2
(First edition: St. Martin’s, September 2017)
Epic fantasy novel, second in a series following Nevernight (2016), set in a land where three suns almost never set.
• Macmillan’s site has this description with an excerpt.
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Lee, Fonda : Jade City
(Orbit 978-0316440882, $15.99, 560pp, trade paperback, June 2018)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 26 Jun 2018
• The Green Bone Saga #1
(First edition: Orbit, November 2017)
Fantasy novel, first in a series by an author previously known for YA, about magic and kungfu in an Asian-inspired metropolis.
• Hachette’s site has this description with an excerpt.
• The book was a finalist for the Nebula, Locus, and Aurora awards.
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Levine, David D. : Arabella and the Battle of Venus
(Tor 978-1250185013, $15.99, 416pp, trade paperback, June 2018)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 19 Jun 2018
• The Adventures of Arabella Ashby #2
(First edition: Tor, July 2017)
Alternate history SF novel, second in a series following Andre Norton winner Arabella of Mars (2016), about a British colony on Mars a century after the first expedition there in the late 1600s.
• Macmillan’s site has this description with an excerpt.
• The third book, Arabella The Traitor of Mars appears July 31st.
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Milán, Victor : The Dinosaur Princess
(Tor 978-0765382139, $9.99, 560pp, mass market paperback, June 2018)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 26 Jun 2018
• The Dinosaur Lords #3
(First edition: Tor, August 2017)
Fantasy novel, third in a series following The Dinosaur Lords (June 2016) and The Dinosaur Knights (July 2016), about a world that mirrors 14th century Europe in which knights battle on dinosaurs rather than horses.
• Macmillan’s site has this description with an excerpt.
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Reid, Rob : After On
(Del Rey 978-1524798079, $17, 576pp, trade paperback, June 2018)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 5 Jun 2018
(First edition: Del Rey, August 2017)
Near future technothriller about the emergence of artificial intelligence in a Silicon Valley app called Phluttr.
• Penguin Random House’s site has this description with an excerpt.
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Ryan, Anthony : The Legion of Flame
(Ace 978-1101987919, $18, 592pp, trade paperback, June 2018)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 5 Jun 2018
• The Draconis Memoria #2
(First edition: Ace, June 2017)
Fantasy novel, second in a series following The Waking Fire (2106), about a trading syndicate that deals in the blood of drakes, a species now weakening.
• Penguin Random House’s site has this description with an excerpt.
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Stirling, S. M. : The Sea Peoples
(Ace 978-0399583193, $9.99, 448pp, mass market paperback, June 2018)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 5 Jun 2018
• The Sea Peoples #14
(First edition: Ace, October 2017)
Alternate history SF novel, eleventh in the “Change” or “Emberverse” series following The Sunrise Lands (2007), The Scourge of God (2008), The Sword of the Lady (2009), The High King of Montival (2010), The Tears of the Sun (2011), Lord of Mountains (2012), The Given Sacrifice (2013), The Golden Princess (2014), The Desert and the Blade (2015), and Prince of Outcasts (2016).
• Penguin Random House’s site has this description with an excerpt.
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Stross, Charles : The Delirium Brief
(Tor.Com 978-1250196095, $14.99, 384pp, trade paperback, June 2018)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 5 Jun 2018
• Laundry Files #8
(First edition: Tor.com, July 2017)
Fantasy novel, eighth in the author’s “Laundry Files” sequence following The Atrocity Archives (2004), The Jennifer Morgue (2006), The Fuller Memorandum (2010), The Apocalypse Codex (2012), The Rhesus Chart (2014), The Annihilation Score (2015), and The Nightmare Stacks (2016), about British secret service agent Bob Howard battling Lovecraftian horrors.
• Macmillan’s site has this description with an excerpt.
• Russell Letson reviewed it last year in Locus Magazine: “This is Stross in one of his darker moods, familiar from the atmosphere of Scratch Monkey, which remains for me a key to understanding his sensibility. I suspect that the political side of the book – the distress at the normal operation of the sausage-factory of government (alluded to in the epigraph) signals some of the real-world anxieties that stand behind this entire series.”
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